Skylanders Academy Ouro's Journey
Chapter 7
Raider stood across from the elf. The elf tried to rub at the bruises on his face from Raider's punches.
"so, where are they keeping Ouro?" asked Raider.
"the Order have many places, but for now we've taken up refuge at the old abandoned Highlander's Academy, you know the place" said the Elf.
"no, never been there, but I know people who have" said Raider.
"even if you get there, you won't save her, the Order is too powerful, we have powers beyond yours and we have a large supply or loyal druids, you won't defeat them all" said the Elf.
"I'm not scared of a few losers in cloaks" said Raider.
"oh, we are more than that, you'll see" said the Elf rising to his feet.
"we're done here, I'll have the Warden take you back to your cell" said Raider.
The other Skylanders returned to the room with Snapshot.
"we're done here" said Raider.
"did you get him to talk?" asked Vesta.
"yep, I've got a location" said Raider.
"okay, thank you for all your help Snapshot" said Vesta.
"anytime" said Snapshot.
Snapshot shoved the elf as they walked away.
"okay, so, where are they?" asked Hex.
"the elf told me they've set up a base of operations at the old Highlander's Academy" said Raider.
"that place has been abandoned for years, no wonder they've been able to stay out of the eye of everyone else" said Vesta.
"and now we go find Ouro and bring her back home" said Raider.
"let's go see if Flynn can give us a lift and tell Eruptor" said Cynder.
"sounds like a plan" said Vesta.
The Skylanders exited Cloudcracker prison and began the walk back to the Academy.
At the Castle
Ouro let out screams of pain as she felt the jolts of lightning course through her body. Every muscle twitched from the volts causing her body to shake. Across the room Pyrox knelt in the corner almost in a sleeping mode. His eyes were completely shut and his body stiff as a rock. Archebald kept a straight face as he shocked the young dragon. He hated every second of this, but it was for the better of the Skylanders. Next to Archebald was Ouroboro. The father watched his daughter being shocked and barely seemed to be fazed by what was happening to his daughter. Eventually the shocking stopped and Ouro felt her body calm when the shocks stopped.
"have you had enough, are you ready to join us?" said Archebald.
"I'll join you when the crypts freeze over" said Ouro.
"that's not the answer I wanted and we're running out of time" said Archebald.
"yeah, my friends will be here soon and there gonna kick all your butts" said Ouro.
"no, they won't" said Archebald.
"sorry sweetie, but we'll be long gone before they can hope to get here" said Ouroboro.
"you're lying, they'll be here" said Ouro.
"such fire in you, that's why you're our precious child" said Archebald.
"I told you to stop calling me that" said Ouro.
"no matter, back to work" said Archebald re-summoning the ball of electricity.
Ouro struggled against her restrains as she saw the ball.
Back at the Academy
The Skylanders arrived to see Flynn finishing off refuelling his ship.
"hey guys how was your visit to the prison?" asked Flynn waving at them.
"it was good, we have a location, is your ship able to take us to Highlander's Academy?" asked Vesta.
"should be, just gotta do a check over the ship's engines and we'll be on our way, gosh I give you guys so many lifts I should be handing out frequent flyer miles" said Flynn.
"alright we'll go talk to Eruptor and come back, after that it's off to Highlander's Academy" said Raider.
With that the Skylanders walked away from Flynn's ship and towards the Academy. They walked through the halls making their way to the headmaster's office. They passed several cadets and even saw Kaos.
"I've heard what's happened, do you need me to zap some fools" said Kaos.
"don't worry about it Kaos, we can handle this, besides the cadets need you here" said Cynder.
"okay, let me know if you do need a hand, I could really go for zapping some evil dudes right now" said Kaos.
"will do" said Cynder.
They continued on and finally reached the headmaster's office; they opened the door to see Eruptor handling some paperwork with Hugo by his side.
"hey everyone, how did it go?" asked Eruptor.
"we got a location; we just need to go save her" said Vesta.
"good, I send the messages off to Spyro and Stealth Elf, even sent one off to the dragon village, to see if they know anything about this Order" said Eruptor.
"we're gonna go save her" said Raider.
"good, save her and bring her back here, no idea what she's going through right now" said Eruptor.
"Flynn's readying his ship right now" said Hex.
"then go and get her back" said Eruptor.
The Skylanders nodded and made their exit and returned to Flynn's ship.
"how fast can you get us there?" asked Raider as he climbed onto Flynn's ship.
"well with the new improvements Sprocket put on I reckon I could get us there in about four hours now" said Flynn.
"well then let's go, we can't take any longer than we need to" said Raider.
Flynn kicked the ship into life and the ship lurched forward at high speed shooting away from the Academy. Raider was growing impatient he began to slowly pace the ship as they moved. He had to get there quickly and rescue Ouro.
Back at the Castle
The electrocuting had begun again, Ouro screamed in pain. Archebald stepped up the intensity a bit making the pain even more excruciating. As he continued a druid entered the room, bringing the torture to a close. Archebald turned to face the druid.
"what news do you bring?" asked Archebald.
"our eyes have seen the Skylanders heading this way at high speeds, they will be here soon" said the druid.
"then we must leave, Ouroboro pack up everything, druid get the other's, help Ouroboro take everything we need, we fall back to our second location" said Archebald.
"understood master" said the druid bowing to Archebald.
"Pyrox" said Archebald.
Pyrox's eyes opened, he rose to his feet and walked towards Archebald.
"the Skylanders will come here, I know it's not what you wanted, but you may play with them, but try not to be too rough" said Archebald.
"finally, I was beginning to think I wouldn't be punching something today" said Pyrox, his voice robotic and devoid of emotion.
"well you've waited, and you've been a great help, you should have something for it" said Archebald.
Pyrox nodded as he watched the Order pack up their stuff. Pyrox returned to his kneeling position as he waited. Soon he would have some fun. But he would need a game plan.
A few hours later
Flynn's ship pulled up outside the Academy. Raider wasted no time. He leapt off the ship, he felt the pain run through his legs as he jumped, but it didn't slow him down, he took to a sprint towards the Academy, the other Skylanders quickly following suite. Raider barged the door open and charged through the old worn out hallways. The stone was old and decayed in places, chunks of stone had fallen out over the years littering the floor.
"where is she" thought Raider.
"slow down Raider we need to be smart" said Vesta calling out to him from behind him.
Raider ignored her and kept running. Up ahead he spotted a large door, he hoped she was behind this door. He ran at the door and booted it open with tremendous force, the old door's nearly falling off their hinges. Raider entered a large abandoned room. He looked around desperately searching for any signs. He spotted the table. The other Skylanders finally arrived. They saw the table.
"you think they used this on Ouro?" said Hex.
"I hope not" said Cynder.
As the Skylanders moved into the room. Pyrox slowly lowered himself down from the ceiling of the room, he quietly grasped the doors and shut them, now it was him and them. Raider inspected the table and turned to face the other Skylanders when he clocked Pyrox.
"who are you and where is Ouro?" asked Raider.
The Skylanders turned to see who Raider was talking to. The robot stared at them all with a fixed glare.
"gone, long gone, they knew you were coming, and they wanted to stay behind and have a little fun with you" said Pyrox.
"I got this one guys" said Vesta.
She dashed forward and threw a powerful right hook; she felt her fist hit something but was shocked when she realised. Pyrox had caught her right hand with ease and held her punch back. She attempted a kick, but he effortlessly caught her leg and threw her into the nearby wall. Pyrox stretched his mechanical arms as Vesta leapt to her feet. She was more cautious this time as she slowly approached Pyrox. She threw a left hand which was blocked by Pyrox, he retaliated with a right hook which Vesta swiftly dodged, the other Skylanders joined in the fight. Cynder flew at Pyrox to grab him, but he was quicker, he leapt into the air over Cynder and kicked her in the back sending her into the ground. Vesta helped her back to her feet. He turned to see Skull headbutt him. The robot didn't even flinch then punched the skull sending him across the room.
"oh, that was a bad idea" groaned Skull.
"stay back Skull 2 I got this" said Hex running forward.
Pyrox dashed towards her, Hex summoned up a wall of bones, Pyrox unsheathed his blade and slashed straight through the bones and jumping at Hex, she dodged a swing from his blade, he attempted another swing only for Raider to block the strike with his sword. The two blades clashed, Pyrox was stronger and forced Raider down.
"is that all you got" said Raider.
Pyrox offered no reply and instead hit a button on his sword, the blade ignited engulfing itself in flames. Raider's eyes went wide with shock, Pyrox moved the blade towards Raider's satchel and held it close, setting his satchel alight.
Raider panicked leaping back and throwing the flaming bag away.
"no toys for you" said Pyrox.
The other Skylanders were back in the game. Pyrox found himself surrounded on all sides.
"give up the fight is uneven" said Cynder.
"I know, you're a few soldiers short" said Pyrox dropping a small object on the floor.
The object exploded releasing smoke all over the room. Pyrox switched the flames off his sword so he would stay hidden.
The Skylanders coughed as the smoke entered their lungs.
"partner up" said Raider.
Raider partnered with Cynder, Vesta with Hex.
They tried to look for the robot, but he just vanished. Just then Raider felt something wrap around his ankle and pull him off the ground into the air. He looked around trying to see Pyrox, he saw a rope around his foot, he tried to slash at it with his sword, but being upside down was only making it harder. Cynder took flight to help Raider but felt another rope wrap around her body and pull her away. The rope wrapped around her body binding her arms. She tried to use her claws to free herself, but she couldn't move her arms. Two left. Hex send out some phantom orbs in all directions trying to land one. But no luck. Pyrox dropped down from the ceiling behind her and went to swing his sword at her, but Vesta was one step ahead, she came out of the smoke in front of him and landed a powerful left hand launching Pyrox back across the room, his sword flying out of his hand as he skidded across the floor. Pyrox quickly got back to his feet.
"you are an interesting foe" said Pyrox.
Pyrox ran for his sword but Hex summoned up a wall of bone stopping him from reaching his sword. Hex sent out some phantom orbs again, but Pyrox dodged every orb with swift movements. He was a quick one. Vesta leapt at him as he was busy dodging an orb and landed a kick sending him backwards, she landed on her feet and was happy, they were winning.
"give it up, you're no match for us" said Vesta, Hex came forward to join her.
"if you wanna defeat me, you need to keep your eyes on me" said Pyrox pulling out a small trigger.
Vesta looked down to see a small metal ball stuck to her leg. Pyrox pushed the trigger, the ball exploded sending Vesta and Hex flying across the room. Pyrox walked across the room and picked up his sword. Raider caught the rope with his sword, the rope was only cut a bit, but he was getting there, Vesta stood up to face Pyrox but was caught by a powerful kick launching her across the room.
Pyrox readied his blade as he stepped towards Vesta, Raider caught the rope again, this time it gave way and he fell to the floor. Raider quickly got back to his feet, but he was too far away, Pyrox jabbed forward with his sword, the blade closed in on Vesta, she was too beaten down to dodge the strike.
"NOO" screamed Raider.
The blade was inches away, but out of nowhere a blur appeared from Pyrox's right, he caught sight of it but couldn't do anything as he felt a powerful spinning kick hit him sending him spinning away from Vesta, his blade missing her by an inch.
Pyrox stood up to find Stealth Elf facing him, her blades ready.
"get away from my Skylanders" said Stealth Elf.
Pyrox jabbed forward with his blade but she was gone, behind him he felt her appear she kicked at him sending him stumbling forward. He quickly turned on his robotic heel and slashed at the elf. She blocked the strike and swung a roundhouse kick, Pyrox managed to dodge the strike and land a punch sending her flying back. She felt the pain through her body but that didn't deter her. Pyrox went to dash forward when the doors to the room burst open and a fire ball launched at Pyrox forcing him to retreat.
"back away from my wife" shouted Spyro as he approached the robot.
Pyrox looked around the Skylanders were getting back to the fight, Hex had set Cynder free, now they outnumbered him 6 to 1, this was not a battle he could win.
"we'll meet again, I will have what is mine" said Pyrox dropping a second smoke bomb and vanishing into thin air as the smoke engulfed the room.
The Skylanders relaxed as the battle was over. Raider let out a sigh and turned to face Spyro and Stealth Elf.
"so Master Stealth Elf, Master Spyro, how was the honeymoon?" asked Raider.
End of Chapter 7